7/30/2024

5/17/2025 11:18 AM

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1508 wins / 1482 losses

Marauder

Gay and Depressed in Prison

3rd place entry in Corgi's Gaybellion Contest

In this game, you play a very familiar character from the previous Gay and Depressed stories, who is now in jail. You used to be a side character in other people's stories, but now the spotlight is finally yours in this Gay and Depressed spin-off!

If you're interested in some more Gay and Depressed story games, check out the original by queenlatifah04, Gay Old Time by Darius_Conwright, Gay and DepressedER!!! by fresh_out_of_the_oven, and Gay and Depressed: The snow bunny society by Benholman44. All of the "gay and depressed" stories are stand-alone stories, so each one can be read separately, but I highly recommend you check these stories out!

Down by the river

unpublished

There's an old man called the Mississippi
That's the old man that I'd like to be!
What does he care if the world's got troubles?
What does he care if the land ain't free?

Ol' man river,
That old man river
He must know something
But don't say nothing
He just keeps rolling
He keeps rolling along"

-Oscar Hammerstein, "Old Man River"

In this story game, you play Samantha, a 25-year old engineer who's recently been through a rough breakup. Out of the blue, your grandfather asks you to accompany him on a river-boat journey where you two will traverse across a national treasure, our very own Mississippi River. Explore the natural beauty of this great waterway as you embark on a journey of self-discovery and finding love. Will you successfully find both on this wonderful river-boat adventure? Only one way to find out!

Falsely Accused:The Telenorian Kingdom's Worst Prison

unpublished

Submitted for Sherbet's Summer's End Synergy Contest.

In this game, you play as a thief. The princess has been kidnapped and everyone suspected that the big fat evil dragon kidnapped her. Naturally, since you and your crew are the dragon's known associates, you are put in the jail. But here's the thing, you're innocent. From the moment you're in jail, it's been one nightmare after another. Far from administering the justice, the Telenorian Prison is nothing but exploitative and conniving. Will you be able to survive and point the finger back on those that did you wrong, or will you succumb to the darkness in jail without getting the chance to vindicate yourself. Warning: This game can be emotionally disturbing and contains dark themes with many parallels to real life. Proceed at your own risk.

Oh god, that would be terrible lol.

True. That's pretty smart!

Mizal ended up helping me lol. I really should write the password down somewhere so I don't keep forgetting

Collaborations do generally happen. Like kitchen nightmares with sherb and sent. I think Malk and Steve worked together on a horror game. And there were a couple of others. I think in the collaborations, each person would write a path of the game, after working together to find an idea they both like. It’s uncommon, but has the potential for a great story with multiple styles!

First of all, before voting, I'd just like to thank the Mod team for putting together such a cool and unique event. Seriously, y'all are awesome!

It was such a hoot to see the initial trailer. It was one of the best marketed Thunderdomes, and it came out of nowhere! I really loved the trailer and all the work MHD put into it, it's definitely one of her best works.

This was such a fun thunder dome, and I hope you guys have more surprise events like these planned.

I'd also like to commend you guys for making a Thunderdome where you make short story games. That was such a cool concept, and I think the mods really made the most out of this! Well done Sherb, Sent, Mizal, and MHD, these are some really good games! And for games made in such a short time, with such a narrow word restriction, are really good!

As for the stories, both A and B are awesome! I liked how Story A essentially coded an entire pinball game, that was so cool!

And Story B was very good too! It was hard to review, because of the advanced vocabulary, and somewhat strange narrative choices, including which parts were emphasized, but the author's skill and humor shone through. It was genuinely a really funny story, and it's a good example of how to execute humor in an unexpected and original way. I can guarantee no one else on the site besides the author(or at least very few people), could write dense paragraphs with complex vocabulary hat occasionally overstay their welcome, and still have it be as funny. The comedic timing in this piece was great.

I'd probably vote for Story B, because while Story A's technological skill/uniqueness in using the editor in an unexpected way was cool, the story was ultimately more of a demonstration of pinball. Meanwhile B was fascinating, and clearly the author knows how to write well even if they made choices that seemed strange, and at times unnecessary, to me.

Moving on to the next set of stories:

I will give the win to Story D. Story D was awesome! It's so simple, yet so brilliant that it took my breath away. It's a cat and mouse game, where an interrogator attempts to get information from a suspect who continuously denies everything. I loved the way that we had to probe and be careful with our questions, and essentially follow a specific line of questioning. I loved the concept of resetting, I thought it was pretty creative, because even though you reset their memory, they're still the same person so if you try the same strategy 1000 times, you'll be stuck there 1000 times. But the way the MC played on the suspect's uncertainty and fear of what he might have said when he was reset was a cool strategy. I liked the 2 endings, and I got to give the win to this one.

I hope whoever wrote Story D expands upon it. I would love to know more about the Dominion and the Monster, as well as the mole's moss addiction.

Story C was decent. The writing was quite great! But for me, I found story D to be more compelling and intriguing. Story D had a really cool game element, and just did a little more with the prompt, so I vote for D.

My votes: B and D.

Welcome! I looked at the game's sneak peek, and I think you've got the hang of it. Your story looks pretty fantastic, especially for a first time story, and I have a feeling it'll do pretty well here. You got world building down, 3-5 endings planned, interesting narration, solid writing skills, and a unique premise. Something tells me it's not your first time handling a project like this. I'm excited to see "My Pet Mie". Also, the audience here can handle pretty mature themes, so don't be afraid that you have to hold back or censor yourself, tell the story exactly how you want it to be told. It's good that you put a disclaimer in any case. That way the reader can decide whether they want to read this story or not.

I would love to see stories written about #1 the dangerous hunting contest, #40, a story set during a nuclear winter on earth, and #10 a story that starts with you receiving a letter or call from someone you thought dead. As for stories I would write, probably the sports one since that was mine this time around, and I defaulted on it.

This trailer is amazing! And MHD's character designs are out of this world, I can't wait to see the match ups. This is really cool.

I thought it was really funny how this was the 2nd Flux story with a BDSM enthusiast as a villain, after Wheeler and Brandt. Especially given the Ancient Egyptian setting, I did not expect it but Amun-Ka was such a good villain.

Oh yeah, she uses a fake end game link